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adjective

Asleep adj., adv.

In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. "Fast asleep the giant lay supine." "By whispering winds soon lulled asleep."

In the sleep of the grave; dead. "Concerning them which are asleep... sorrow not, even as others which have no hope."

Numbed, and, usually, tingling. "Leaning long upon any part maketh it numb, and, as we call it, asleep."

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Etymology of 'Asleep'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Asleep" Quotes from Famous Books

... I had screened myself behind the butt, I squatted down; and, in five minutes after, was so fast asleep; that it would have taken all the bells of Canterbury to have waked me. I had got but little sleep on the preceding night, and not a great deal the night before that; for John and I had been early up for the market. The fatigue, moreover, experienced in my cross-country ...

— The Boy Tar • Mayne Reid

... closed his eyes: the tears trickled slowly over his wrinkled cheeks. "I've been a trouble to Jemmy," he murmured, faintly; "I've been a sad trouble, I'm afraid, to poor Jemmy!" In a minute more his weakness overpowered him, and he fell asleep again. ...

— Armadale • Wilkie Collins

... the first assertion, I ask them if experience does not also teach that if the body be sluggish the mind at the same time is not fit for thinking? When the body is asleep, the mind slumbers with it, and has not the power to think, as it has when the body is awake. Again, I believe that all have discovered that the mind is not always equally fitted for thinking about the same subject, but in proportion to the fitness ...

— The Philosophy of Spinoza • Baruch de Spinoza

... later, a little group of officers sat in a roomy dug-out. Major Kemp was there, with his head upon the plank table, fast asleep. Bobby Little, who had neither eaten nor slept since the previous dawn, was nibbling chocolate, and shaking as if with ague. He had gone through a good deal. Waddell sat opposite to him, stolidly devouring bully-beef out of a tin with his fingers. Ayling reclined ...

— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay

... the roof, and crosser than thirteen sticks. Jean is asleep on the porch, and mama is out showing Huldah how ...

— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving

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